District

district English + line Proper noun the District en with determiner informal The District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States. en with determiner mostly local usage Any of numerous governmental districts. en rail The District Line of the London Underground, originally known as the District Railway. en 2012 Andrew Martin Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube Profile Books, 978-1846684777 60 The District seems complacently salubrious. It is green on the Tube map, an inoffensive colour. It has not one but two bridge crossings of the Thames, which seems greedy when you think that no other [underground] line has even one. en London Washington, D.C.